Universal formatting rules and universal programmability. Universal options for Nostr-specific formatting, as well, through a common library.
We want to do more advanced publishing, including diagrams, style sheets, tables, formulas and graphs, newspapers and magazines, scientific journals, eBooks, etc. This stuff needs to work the same on every client, and be exportable to ePub, LaTeX, and etc. in a predictable way, or it'll be a formatting shitshow.
Our 30041 events will also be Asciidoc.
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It's already going to be a nightmare including long-form articles in 30040s because they will be formatted in different markdown flavors. ๐ฌ
Now all of wikifreedia can be exported as manpages ๐๐
1. For Zines, you're going to need something like Hypernotes (think Interactive PDF's) anyway: View article โ
2. Diagrams, Graphs and advanced Tables are a b*tch when it comes to displaying them properly on mobile. Creators already hate it when they don't have the guarantee of proper display on the same platform, just imagine this across XXXX different apps.
3. If you're going for universality through a common library anyway, you might as well just go for Nostr flavored MarkDown: View article โ
4. I'm making things like app and music album descriptions be wikis behind the hood, so that original publishers are filling in our great encyclopedia as a byproduct ๐ช . Asciidoc complicates that.
5. There are a lot of WIki- and Nostr-specific things to standardize to make them usable, so you'll be flavoring all over AsciiDoc instead. Examples: a "quick facts" section for wikis, Nostr event embeds, zettels, ...